Berkeley Hills Team Time Trial, Feb. 20, 2010

Berkeley Hills TTT with Rich on the tandem. This was our 4th Berkeley Hills TTT on the tandem and is memorable as it was the first sanctioned race ever for us in 2007. We arrived almost 2 hrs. ahead of time but, for some reason, registration took 30 minutes. All in all, we got a pretty lousy warm-up. Air was heavy and some wind. There were 5 teams in the tandem category, 4 coed and 1 two-man team. We started second, 30 seconds behind a Team Clover team – never caught them and they finished strong, tied for 1st place with the Silverberg/Jarvis team- a little over 4 minutes ahead of us! The Silverberg/Jarvis team passed us on Alhambra Rd. (no surprise). The two-man team passed us after the right turn on Bear Creek before Mama Bear. Feel that is where we lost some time. We did well on the climbing. Along the way we passed 5 coed teams. Actual time 50:15 (official time 50:24 in error but no effect on placement). Our goal was 48 min., so disappointed in results. Placed 4/5; some fast tandem teams; even w/ time of 48 min we would have placed the same. Still enjoyed the event and good to see friends.